Fionna Tan

04/01/2023

20/08/2021

Saya mau mohon maaf 🙏🏻
Maaf karena sudah buat semuanya berdebat sampai subuh setiap Jumat 😂

Dan terima kasih sudah berpartisipasi dalam Bincang Arsitek sejauh ini. Awalnya hanya karena bosan di rumah, ternyata bisa jadi kegiatan extracurricular yang berfaedah 🙂

A dozen episodes! Wohooo 🎉

Big thanks to
— for being the best moderator from the very beginning until now and for generously sharing your wisdom 🙏🏻
— who help organizing & running the events, this wont happen consistently every week without you 🥺💕
— for making it fun and educative discussions with komen2 lucunya 😆

And of course to all speakers:
Ep. 1: Seperti Apa Ibu Kota Negara Impian Kita?


Ep. 2: Travel Stories — Perlukah Ziarah Arsitektur?


Ep. 3: Kota Tua — Livable Cities
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Ep. 4: Pos Bloc — Placemaking di Batavia Baru


Ep. 5: Kisah Begadang Paling Extreme


Ep. 6: Serba Serbi Client


Ep. 7: Arsitektur Global, Gaya Lokal


Ep. 8: Desain Budget & Toko Kopi


Ep. 9: Indonesian Architects Week Rio 2021


Ep. 10: Plagiarisme?


Ep. 11: Identitas Arsitektur Indonesia


Ep.12: Jakarta is Sinking!


Not forgetting all the loyal audiences who have been following from the beginning and new ones who have just joined !

Thank you. I hope this can be a platform where we can learn from one another 📚

13/08/2021

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BINCANG ARSITEK🇮🇩: Identitas Arsitektur Indonesia
— JUMAT, 13 AGUSTUS
— 9:00pm till midnight! 🥳🥳

Dengan banyaknya pengaruh gaya arsitektur dari luar, seperti apa sih Identitas Arsitektur Indonesia yang sebenarnya? 🤔 Tingginya demand terhadap design american classic, scandinavian, industrial, modern minimalist, membuat kita berpikir: Seperti apa sih karakter arsitektur Indonesia untuk masa depan? 🏙 Belajar dari bangunan2 tradisional dan material lokal yang ada, bagaimana cara kita para arsitek muda mengangkatnya ke dalam design modern yang kekinian? Jika kita bisa menamai gaya design arsitektur Indonesia masa kini, kira2 apa yaa? Yuk ikutan diskusi Bincang Arsitek edisi special kemerdekaan! 🇮🇩

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13/01/2021

//FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE//
It’s easy to lose yourself in Walden 7. It’s not just the winding, vertical labyrinth of walkways that confound visitors but also the story behind them that overwhelms. A grand social-housing experiment built on utopian ideals, new urban planning concepts, and a touch of science fiction, Walden 7 stands as a monument to a time of change in Catalonia.

A utopian vision for social living, the idea for Walden 7 came to Bofill in the early 1970s, when he invited various talents of a team of sociologists, poets, philosophers, and mathematicians to design the housing estate of the future 🚀 Together, they birthed the sprawling stack of modular but unsystematic living units — each cell twisted slightly, relative to the units below, unveiling communal spaces. It became an architectural solution to counteract the uniformity of conventional apartment blocks 🏢 The units are designed to be connected together, allowing for a diverse range of housing typologies. The smallest apartments of 30sqm are made up of a single cell, while the largest combine up to four cells and can be joined or divided as changing lifestyles or family needs require. Bofill called the project the City in Space – a hollowed-out, 16-storey complex consists of 18 towers and 5 courtyards with street-level shops designed to be a self-sufficient city within a city 🌆🏙

Walking around the building, I feel like exploring a work of art. The staggered geometric configuration of the units, combined with a complex labyrinth of internal bridges and balconies, creates a proliferation of unexpected views and intimate spaces.

Now the question is: Would you like to live here? 🤣
Walden 7 by Ricardo Bofill // Barcelona, Spain

08/01/2021

2020 felt surreal. It’s like we’re living in a movie. It gave us the illusion of normalcy for the first three months of the year. But by mid-March, when people began to nestle in their homes for safety amid the coronavirus pandemic, things started to change.

When the virus vastly spreading like , many people hoarded supplies. Looking at the empty aisles in the supermarket made me realize how we live in world of inequality and selfishness like , but also because of the fear of the unknown. And being quarantined at home for so long, the time started to feel relative. Would you be able to tell what today’s date was without looking at the calendar? With how loopy things have been feeling, we might have even asked ourselves: Are we in a movie?

With all the uncertainties, what do you think will happen this year? Will it repeat like ? I hope not 😂

Stay safe and healthy everyone!
PS: this symmetrical architecture seems very fitting for movie set! Haha *too much movies*
Walden 7 by Ricardo Bofill // Barcelona, Spain

06/01/2021

Utopian Fantasy 🧡💙
Walden 7 by Ricardo Bofill // Barcelona, Spain

22/12/2020

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20/12/2020

//A FOREST OF STONE//
The Sagrada Familia features a mix of Catalan Modernism, Spanish Late Gothic, Catalan Noucentisme, and Art Nouveau. While the church began construction during the Art Nouveau, Gaudi has been credited with bringing Art Nouveau style much beyond its usual application as a surface decoration.

The two opposing facade has distinct style and stories behind them. Facing towards sunrise, the Nativity facade represents the birth and life. It is highly ornamented with intricate sculptures, using no straight lines to mimic the beauty of nature.

On the other hand, the Passion facade is austere, plain, and simple. The sculptures are carved from bare stones, using solid straight lines to form angular and rigid shapes. This style of decoration for was chosen because Gaudi wanted it to be the exact opposite of Nativity Facade. He wanted the Passion Facade to depict misery and death, while Nativity facade showcases life.

Which side of the church do you like more?
La Sagrada Família by Antoni Gaudí // Barcelona, Spain

20/12/2020

The Symphony of Colours 🌅

Sagrada Familia is a temple of harmonious light, as the sun plays a fundamental role throughout the cathedral’s interior and exterior, creating light, shadow and colours that evoke real spirituality.

In the early hours of every morning, with the sun streaming in from the east, cold colors dominate throughout the cathedral’s interior, giving way to green and blue tones. While in the afternoon, the ochres and oranges fill the Sagrada Familia to create a much warmer feel.

In the central lobby, transparent crystals allow clean white light to fill the building, perfectly embodying the purity of this special place and lighting up the temple until, little by little, the light dilutes from natures splendour to become darker and more intimate in the lower chambers, imitating the effect of the sun setting in the forest 🌲🌲❤️🧡
Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudí // Barcelona, Spain

20/12/2020

138 years and counting — 🏗🏗🏗

Sagrada Família is unlike any building in the world. The church's famous Nativity Facade looks like a supersized drip sandcastle from a distance, but closer inspection reveals ornately sculpted towers that have been described as "the Bible written in stone”. Gaudí started construction with this facade, which expresses the joy of the Birth, and worked on it until the day of his death in 1926.

Since laying the first stone in 1882, Sagrada Família has now entered its final stage of construction, making it the longest-running active building project on Earth. Six new towers will be added to the Roman Catholic basilica, completing work that was begun by Gaudi 138 years ago.

When do you think this building will finally be completed? 😅
Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudí // Barcelona, Spain

20/12/2020

//THE STONE QUARRY//

Also wide known as La Pedrera, Casa Milà owes its more popular name to the controversy it provoked. “La Pedrera” is actually a pejorative name given by the locals who were amazed by the extravagant and gloomy appearance of its main facade. It wasn’t understood by the contemporaries as it broke with the aesthetics of other buildings in the area, and became object of criticism. Its unusual structure was the subject of public mockery and ridicule.

Although controversial, Casa Milà contributed greatly to the Modernist movement. It pushed formal boundaries of rectilinearity and, as Gaudi intentionally drew from natural and organic forms for the building’s shape, significantly inspired practices of biomimicry. The facade resembles the moving sea, the waves interacting with the seaweed-motifs on the wrought-iron balcony railings.

La Pedrera has became one of Barcelona's best-loved buildings for its extraordinary structure: it is supported entirely by pillars, without a single master wall, allowing the vast, asymmetrical windows of the façade to invite in great swathes of natural light ✨ Inside, we can explore the dreamlike attic space, with its brick catenary arches of various heights following the widths of the bay. Used to be a laundry space, the attic now holds a gallery offering an insightful overview of Gaudí's career through models, drawings, objects, and multimedia exhibits.

What are your thoughts on this building? 🤔💭
Casa Milà by Antoni Gaudí // Barcelona, Spain

20/12/2020

Gaudi was serious of having no straight lines! Even the staircase is so wavy. It is neither straight nor flat but instead match the warped and variable surfaces along their route.

Going up 8 stories, of course we opted to take the staircase instead of elevator 🤣 The rooftop is beautifully crowned with skylights, staircase exits, ventilation shafts, fans, and chimneys. Those usually functional and ugly elements are disguised into sculptures overlooking the Passeig de Grácia, which inspires the form of Stormtroopers in Star Wars movies! 🤩
Casa Milà by Antoni Gaudí // Barcelona, Spain